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NYC69A0073

1969-01-15 · SYRACUSE, New York, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N445DM has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (DJI AGRAS T100), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
BEECH TC-45G · N445DM
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dusk
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
A1
Operator type
E
Airport
HANCOCK
Kind of flying
CJ

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR
Temp
12° F

Aircraft history

Total time
5,680 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
DA (DA)
Total hours
9,080
Age
34

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

AFLD. DROVE INTO ACFT. PATCHES OF GRND FOG.

Investigator remarks

MAIL FLT. AUTO DRIVER UNAUTHORIZED TO OPERATE ON

Cause factors

  • 68/A/K5 A
    PERSONNEL DRIVER OF VEHICLE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/C J
    WEATHER FOG Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 1056. Source file NTSB_1969_3_1056.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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